Hi list, You will have to forgive me for forwarding this message to the list, but it was just too precious to keep all to myself! This is absolutely awesome. -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so they can be kicked over the side and drowned! * * REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496 */ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<*REPLY SEPERATOR*>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 09:09:59 -0500 From: James Sieling III/Mechanicsburg/IBM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: AS/400 Colleagues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Look who is running on AS/400 again In the November issue of Midrange Technology Showcase there is an article on the front page entitled "IBM's Frank Soltis, Uncensored". Below is an excerpt from that article that references a very large software company on the west coast that used to run their business on AS/400, switched over to NT, and now is back to AS/400. I'm still gloating over it!!! Please read on....... ...Jim ********** Dr. Frank Soltis, the IBM engineer who has been called "the AS/400's Elvis," recently shared a success story during a keynote speech at a user conference in Florida. This particular company was in the software distribution business and at one point had 23 AS/400s located around the world. The company was a very good customer, went from CISC to RISC, and was always one of the first to upgrade to new technology, he said. Then came the Year 2000 problem, and despite five years of dedicated service during a period of great revenue growth, the company decided that it was time to move off the AS/400. So in June of 1999, the company unplugged its AS/400s and powered up 1200 NT servers it needed to replace them. But things didn't quite go as planned. "They found they couldn't make it work," Soltis told the crowd. "Today, one year after unplugging their AS/400s, they're back on the AS/400." That company is Microsoft. "They viewed that as a point of embarrassment," Soltis said. "We thought it was kind of fun....Can you think of a company with greater incentive to move to NT, and they couldn't do it?" ********** Jim Sieling iSeries 400 Specialist IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5267 E Simpson Ferry Rd Phone: 717-796-3475 Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 Fax: 717-796-3408 Tie: 437-3475
